do you mean the "type what you see in the image" thing? those things can get annoying sometimes. Like when the text used was so freakin unreadable and you have to go through the signup form again and again until you get it right.

we could think of anothe method. something that doesnt need much programming but human intervention. What we want is to make sure that no spambot or any bot fro that matter to add itself to our database or users. Well, we could use account verification by admins or moderators or nayone thats human for that matter. Of coruse that would need at least someone with access to those controls at 24-7. or we could just take it easy, if we find a new user and thread made by a suspicious spam bot or is advertising something or some website and has nothing to do with ET, TCE, or online gaming for anyreason, and the user does not reply within 24hrs, we could remove both account and thread. (if they dont reply within 24hours or consider 72hrs of the warning on suspicious threads, then it must be a spambot)

that is one option...I have used the admin active user setting and found it can very very overwhelming with the number of accounts being created and checking each user's details...tc.com does have some "mods" I've made to allow quick eradication or users and posts...if time permits I was thinking of making some sort of dodgy user mod for tc.com and naturally the code can be ported here...

that would be very very good. But TCE.US does need a few more moderators. Besides me, diane, from time to time Traumahalw and now including you, we are the only guys managing this forum group. But anyaways, there are only 5-7 active members that post often. most of all the others are just signing up but never really post anything. other only advertise their own forums, websites, etcetc.

they could just port the whole mod over to doom3 engine onces its finished. From there just a few tweaking and editing to work on c++ codes used by D3e. Doom3 does need some modern tactical shooter mods since it doesnt have much that are comparable to TCE. (and give me a reason to get a game that never crossed my mind before)

These shaders mostly require C++ programming to make the job easier, but the ET engine is using QuakeC language and is very limited compared to C++. So, its not impossible to do, its just impossible to do within the dev's lifetime unless they make a complete overhaul to C++ which means completely rewriting the engine and the source code, which means breaking the license agreement of ET itself since your not suppose to reverse engineer the engine, but you are allowed to with the game.

but the problem is, if they used the doom3 engine,
it would be a commercial succes, because, not evryone have the doom3 game, but with the WET engine, evryone could acces the file,
means that we can have more people on the servers.
i think the WET engine, could use some upgrades,
tweak it, twist it, push the limist, ans just discover what you can get out of a crappy old engine.

its like this,

the wet engine is like this old mustang:

the devs are the car-tuners, and they're planning to make the mustang look like this:

Remember when I said the Quake3 engine became free, a GPL engine. That happened when the Doom3 engine replaced it. Within this year or next year, Id Softawer will release Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2, with a brand new engine designed by Carmack himself. With the release of this new engine will render the Doom3 engine obsolete and under the GPL making it available for free over the IdSoftware FTP for new small game devs-to-be. Its only a matter of time. Id already announced a sequel with a new engine coming with it. What they can do is use the engine itself, creat their own game source code and there you have it, a brand new, freeware game.